How to Use alarming in a Sentence

alarming

adjective

• Nothing alarming came from the NFL’s new kickoff rules.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2024
• Whether due to hormonal changes, genetics or lifestyle factors, the gradual loss of volume can feel both frustrating and alarming.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 6 Sep. 2024
• So yes, the French right is bad, and its rise is alarming.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• One of the most alarming side harms, and one of the most-discussed, are the wounds that xylazine use can cause.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• That’s alarming for the prospects of a just transition.
  — Morgan R. Frank, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The White House bulletin on the health of Woodrow Wilson was alarming.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• The teen is part of an alarming trend among the country's K-12 students.
  — Leigh Paterson, NPR, 18 May 2024
• Sweeney plays Claire, who shows up at the doorstep of her mother, Kate (Moore), in an alarming state.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to a new study, the news there is alarming as well.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2024
• In the 1960s, heroin use in the United States was rising at an alarming pace.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The data showed an alarming 937% increase in babies over the past decade.
  — Theara Coleman, theweek, 24 June 2024
• An alarming new study in the journal Nature shows how bad the problem could get in 32 coastal cities in the United States.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• Most alarming to some are the dire news stories about a violent new gang.
  — Martin Kaste, NPR, 9 May 2024
• The numbers have been alarming: In December, just 1,281 pounds of crawfish moved through the dock.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• South Korea’s birth rate has reached alarming new lows.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2023
• Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
  — Tom Krishner, oregonlive, 9 May 2023
• Because dust storms weren’t all that common in this area about a decade and a half ago, this statistic is quite alarming.
  — Korin Miller, Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2024
• That’s not to say that the alarming month that has just passed is solely a result of a hotter atmosphere.
  — Brady Dennis and Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Recent data from the CDC found alarming rates of sadness among teen girls.
  — Caitlin Gilbert, Lindsey Bever, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Parts of Antarctica have been seeing alarming changes for a while.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 30 July 2023
• The chaos was an alarming turn for a nation that only four years ago was an inspiration to both Africa and the Arab world.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Wrap sisal rope around letter frames to craft an alarming welcome message to your door.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• Most alarming is the increase in syphilis in newborns, who contract it from their mothers.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The opponents were hardly the best on the schedule and the Beavers produced an alarming number of swing-and-misses.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
• One of the most alarming signs is if the lion approaches you directly.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
• Viewers have flocked away from CNN in alarming numbers.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• While the cost of EV production keeps going down, the cost of EV repairs keep going up at alarming rates.
  — José Rodríguez Jr. / Jalopnik, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Here’s a look at how this alarming exodus is shaking up academia.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
• Even more alarming, there were reports that dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank had been killed since the Hamas attack, some by settlers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The trend is alarming, not least because the growing number of women giving birth at 40 or above.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024